Channel Incident (1940)
9m
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April 28, 1940Release Date
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During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
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Channel Incident is a 1940 British short (15 minute) drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It combines documentary footage with acting. It is placed on the ships SS Princess Louise, SS Blackburn Rovers and SS Devonia.
The film was a propaganda effort, made during the Second World War, which depicts the owner of a yacht heading across the Channel to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk.